Just got selected for blood test in TPAPN. Anyone else get this before?

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I was selected for a blood test last week. I have been in tpapn since March. I have no idea what the panel is, but when I tried to Google the panel code under Quest it came up with hepatitis C with reflex for antibodies. I can see why they would want me to do that since I was an IV drug user, but I thought they only did test for substance abuse? Anyone else get chosen for blood tests?

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Just finished 5 years. Never had a blood test

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I think you will find it's a pEth test, for alcohol. If they wished to do the more comprehensive tests for drugs, they could request that you submit to a hair or nails test (the matrix tests). But, since it's blood, my money is on the pEth ( a 21 day look back for alcohol consumption ). Florida started that a few months back because there were concerns that nurses in monitoring were drinking and not being detected by urine.

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